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    Medal Bar, left to right, Campaign for the Defense of Leningrad, 250th Anniversary Of Leningrad Medal, Victory over Germany, & 20th Anniversary of Victory Medal, which is mounted on the ribbon suspension for his Jubilee Medal for 30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy. That medal, the Jubilee Medal for 40 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy, their respective documents, and the suspension for the 20th Anniversary of Victory Medal are sadly missing from this group. . .

    Edited by Bill Garvy
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    Award Card 1. . .

    Award Card

    Order Booklet 595863

    1. Last name: Kurkhuli

    2. Name and patrionymic: Zaliko Petrovich

    3. Rank: Guards Technical Lieutenant

    4. Gender: Male

    5. Birthyear: 1913

    6. Birthplace: Georgian SSR, Tbilisi

    7. Party membership: yes, since 1941

    8. Education: mid-level

    9. Nationality: Georgian

    10. Time in Red Army: 25.9.1935

    11. Place of service at awarding: 16 Air Army – Repair Technician

    12. Place of work at present: Yusilertorg – Factory Chief

    13. Home address: Tbilisi, Guguretskaya #31

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    Award Card 2. . .

    14.Awards:

    Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization

    Red Star 1.120.951 16 Air Army on 22.6.1944

    Verified by military commissariat official, Major Khintibudze on 4 May 1947

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    Citation 1. . .

    Award Sheet

    1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Kurkhuli, Zaliko Petrovich

    2. Rank: Guards Technical Lieutenant

    3. Duty position: Aviation Technician – 827 Mobile Aviation Repair Workshop (MARW – 3)

    Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star

    4. Born: 1913

    5. Nationality: Georgian

    6. Party membership: yes

    7. Previous combat: White Finn campaign 1939-40, 1941-1942 Northern and Volkhov Fronts, and 1943 Central Front

    8. Wounds or shell-shock: none

    9. Time in Red Army: since 1935

    10. Inducted by: Tbilisi Municipal Military Commissariat

    11. Previous awards: Medal for the Defense of Leningrad

    12. Home of record: Georgian SSR, Tbilisi, Arsenalnoe Highway #31. Father – Kurkhuli, Petr Georgievich

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    Citation 2. . .

    Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

    As the Chief Aviation Technician, Comrade Z.P. Kurkhuli has displayed the best examples of work in the first quarter of 1944. He repaired twelve U2 combat aircraft and during his entire period in the MARW thirty-six aircraft with high-quality repairs. He has trained three junior aviation specialists and one aviation mechanic.

    For the first quarter of 1944, he fulfilled the brigade’s repair plan by 180%.

    Going out to the aircraft’s accident site, he conducted only good and outstanding repairs in the established period for which he received three congratulatory certificates from the MARW leadership and rifle units, as well as a cash bonus.

    For excellent aircraft repair and for overfulfillment of the 16 Air Army’s repair norms, Comrade Kurukhuli is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

    Signed Workshop Chief, Engineer-Captain Anakhin on 23 May 1944

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    Citation 3. . .

    Endorsed Chief of Capital Reconstruction and Repairs Section, 16 Air Army, Engineer-Lieutenant Colonel Lazarev on 27 May 1944

    Endorsed Commander, 16 Air Army, General-Colonel of Aviation Rudenko in June 1944

    Awarded the Order of the Red Star by Order 111/N of the 16 Air Army dated 22.6.1944 and verified by Air Army Personnel Officer Captain Upir on 14 June 1944.

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